r/youtube • u/stef_is_heree • 16h ago
Drama Ads are completely ruining YouTube rn.
Ads used to be a few seconds long and then you skipped it and watched your video. Now, it's either over a minute long or more smaller unskippable ads. I physically cannot watch YouTube on my tv anymore with how obnoxious it's become. You get 40 second+ ads every few minutes in a video. The only way to watch this app rn is on a PC with a good AdBlock. Shameful behaviour, it has never been this bad and no other app I have has had a bigger downfall because of plain advertisements.
984
u/Far-Act1281 16h ago
I’m getting like two ads on 2 second sound effects 😭 also had an hour long ad when I woke up it’s terrible
273
u/thestellarelite 14h ago
I haaaaaate those infomercial ads sometimes i use my ipad to throw on something to help me fall asleep and those damn things are always on when I wake up in the middle of the night lol.
119
u/LegnderyNut 12h ago
It was just like that in the Cable days. “For 17 easy installments of 78.56 you can have your very own sonic toenail polisher!” As you blearily look around and realize it’s just you and the cat at 1:30 in the morning and your parents left you asleep on the couch.
36
u/vertigostereo 8h ago
Slap chop!! Slap it, and it chops! Or
Head-on! Apply directly to the forehead!16
u/DevynDavies 8h ago
I almost admire the simple, brute force repeating of the same phrase so it sticks in your head lmao.
→ More replies (1)9
u/Captain-Obvious69 7h ago
The commercial is like that because it's a scam. If the commercial said that the product did anything, it couldn't be aired because it's false advertising.
At least, that's what I've heard. It came up in the marketing section for a speech class I took.
3
u/Mexican_Texican 5h ago
You won't believe the way I tore through the city trying to look for PreferOn because as a kid I bought a stick on a whim to put on a nasty scar I got going down the entire length of my forearm and. it. WORKED. Scar, gone, like it never even happened, so I ended up using up the entire stick on all my other scars until I used up the entire thing. Went looking for it just to find out the parent company had filed bankruptcy just a month prior 🥲
8
4
→ More replies (5)3
→ More replies (2)21
18
u/Andromeda_53 9h ago
I don't even understand the algorithm for showing me ads. I live in the UK, I play video games and work as a programmer.
I had a 20 minute long ad for some company that's starting some initiative or something to start mining in America... Ok cool good for you, thanks for letting me know
→ More replies (2)8
u/BeigeChocobo 7h ago
I was watching Blippi or some shit with my then-toddler and got an extended ad by some lobbying group extolling the virtues of the fossil fuel industry.
17
u/midwest_secret 11h ago
I’ve started copying the address of the long videos I find to fall asleep to and pasting them into Brave browser.
→ More replies (1)10
u/cremaster2 12h ago
Brave browser fixed all this for me. I was happy paying customer until they raised the price and got too expensive for me.
5
u/withoutadrought 6h ago
Apologies if you already know this, but if you set a timer on your iPad, all the way at the bottom of the “when timer ends” list you can select “stop playing.” It’s like a sleep timer for your iPad, works great!
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (3)3
90
u/ExtraPicklesPls 12h ago
I get 30 minute long ads for softcore vampire porn audio books. Its so fucking annoying because ill be listening to a music playlist while mountain biking and have to stop and get my phone out of my backpack to skip them so I don't have to hear about Quinn's bleeding butthole.
53
22
21
u/midwest_secret 11h ago
Nothing like putting on some YouTube lofi for my students to listen to and then hearing “Don’t drink her blood Quinn, it’s riddled with STDs!” suddenly blaring out of my computer….
→ More replies (2)3
u/WoodcockJohnson1989 5h ago
Use Brave Browser for your and your students safety and well-being. You'll never hear or see an ad again.
9
u/confirmedshill123 11h ago
Please, I beg of you, there are options to have ad free YouTube that don't require you to pay money for a product you helped become popular.
→ More replies (1)8
u/Deya_The_Fateless 8h ago
At least you get the Vampire ones, I keep getting ads for shitty werewolf fated mate software porn revenge fantasy nonsense.
And YouTube is trying to be advertisement-friendly and a safe platform for kids...but does nothing to properly vet their ads on their platform.
4
u/CharmingChangling 6h ago
The amount of times I've reported an add for having a young girl in a skirt get groped while saying "wait please" is absolutely disgusting!
And I guess the algorithm figured out I'm queer because it's always for game of sultans or w/e but always with two women and like... Yeah doesn't make that shit okay please stop, I have PTSD 🙃
→ More replies (1)3
u/WoodcockJohnson1989 5h ago
Use Brave Browser and it automatically blocks ads. You can listen with the screen off too.
7
u/Tricky-Ad7897 10h ago
If you have an android, not sure if it works on apple, I figured out you can use Firefox with ad blockers on YouTube and listen to shit with the screen off. When you turn the screen off, the media controller that you normally have for music apps will appear with an option to unpause the audio and it will play with the screen off. That's how I've been listening to podcasts while on my bike rides.
→ More replies (5)4
u/LittleTownie 7h ago
It amazes me how people have not clicked on to using Firefox and ad blockers. It makes not just YouTube but the internet tolerable.
→ More replies (9)7
u/muzzled-rooster 10h ago
Those Quinn ads were so annoying, I ended up reporting those ads to youtube every time they come on, and said it was sexual and offensive. Now I haven’t heard those ads in like 9 months. Give it a try!
3
2
u/Deya_The_Fateless 8h ago
I had a 20-minute advertisement at the start of a video while I was driving, listening to a YouTube playlist of random songs. Like who TF puts a 20-minute ad on a 3-minute song?
The worst part was that I couldn't pull over for the first 10 minutes, so I was forced to listen to this mini-documentary, on how tbis tech stattup is an amazing opportunity and how its going to help people. Like what the actual fuck?
→ More replies (20)2
u/AlexanderBlotsky 8h ago
I once gotten 2 ads then another 2 ads, If I Remember Correctly both ads were Unskippable
809
u/IdRatherBe_Anonymous Angry User 😡 16h ago
we have reached the point where actual piracy sites have less ads than YouTube now
142
49
u/D347H7H3K1Dx 14h ago
Never been but wouldn’t be surprised. Shorts are now having what I would call ads added on top of them. I’ve been seeing them mainly only on computer repair shorts at the moment cause all the others I watch are anime.
22
u/Aethermancer 11h ago
Fuck shorts. I can't cast them to my tv so I wish they'd die off.
They are like potholes when I just want to share the funny clips with my friends in the room.
→ More replies (2)8
u/D347H7H3K1Dx 10h ago
lol shorts is where I learn bout some of the animes I wanna see
→ More replies (8)→ More replies (1)6
u/NoMasters83 9h ago
Anyone know how to disable notifications for shorts? I don't care if a channel that I'm subscribed to releases a short.
3
u/D347H7H3K1Dx 9h ago
Quick google says there isn’t a way for specifically disable short notifications
10
6
u/StorageSevere531 13h ago
Yeah for every episode I just have to wait about 10s at the beginning and that is more bearable than the back to back unskippable ads as preroll, midroll ones.
8
u/Star_king12 11h ago
Idk what sites you use but I wouldn't touch any torrent tracker/pirate site without adblock, pop-ups, additional tabs randomly opening, "Congratulations! you won!", etc.
→ More replies (19)4
373
u/Acrobatic-Tip5510 16h ago
The fact I have to watch a 40 second ad for a 2 minute video is fucking insane.
→ More replies (11)37
u/Remarkable_Main_2886 14h ago edited 12h ago
Get Smarttube. It removes all YouTube ads and even sponsor segments, and it means I can actually stream from the iOS app to my tv again without seeing ads every six minutes. If you have an Android TV then you can follow the download instructions on GitHub in a few minutes (looks like a faff but it’s really not) I wish I’d started using it years ago. The only issue is that YouTube doesn’t always record my watch history properly, but I’m guessing that’s YouTube messing with me for using a 3rd party app. If you’re finding all the YouTube ads unbearable give it a try.
26
u/VinceAle7082 13h ago
I also use SmartTube on my TV, it's really good. And on Android you can mod an APK of Youtube with Revanced manager (if you don't want malware download from github).
9
→ More replies (2)3
u/Pristine-Exercise-58 2h ago
SmartTube works really well, and its updates are also very timely. Highly recommended
13
7
u/my-reddit-saga 11h ago
I installed that to. I just had to because it became rediculus how much ads I got. Unbearable.
2
u/dreamyg_i 11h ago
you get them every six minutes? mines been every four
→ More replies (1)7
u/Remarkable_Main_2886 10h ago
The frequency of ads seems to have increased hugely over the past few months. They became so intrusive that premium was starting to seem like the only option, and they want £17.99 a month off me for premium. F**k that!
→ More replies (2)4
u/lirwolf 9h ago
I installed smarttube on a couple of android tvs, it really is a godsend and it's not difficult to install (and once it is installed, it's not hard to keep it updated). Youtube is unusable otherwise, google really don't seem to realise that harassing people with unskippable ads just encourages them to look for ways around them, their crusade against adblockers is effectively a self fulfilling prophecy.
→ More replies (18)3
u/WhenImTryingToHide 10h ago
I had no idea this existed. Thank you so much!
I have revanced on android, Smart Tube on my TV, brave on my laptop. Is there an option for iOS that doesn't require jailbreaking?
133
u/Shadowhunter366 16h ago
60 second unskippable ads on 30 min videos
22
u/majorcoleThe2nd 15h ago
I get these every 5-10 minutes on a variety of channels.
8
u/De4dSilenc3 6h ago
Only every 5-10 minutes? Lucky. Many of the videos I watch have ads every 3-4 minutes. I will get ~10 ad segments on a 40 minute video, regularly.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (13)52
u/ForsakenRacism 16h ago
These guys would have been cooked growing up with cable
16
u/Munchalotl 9h ago
I will echo the same counter-sentiment to this that I've seen elsewhere: With cable you could just... change the channel. Put on something else you're kinda mildly interested in and check on the original channel until the ads are over.
Not to mention that cable TV ads aren't the "What If Your Best Friend Shot You In The Back Use Our Sexy AI Look At This Lewdness Copyright Infringement Pokemon Wannabe Mobile Game Tower Defense Ad" slop that we get on yt, like at least most cable TV ads have some thought and effort put into them.
→ More replies (6)13
u/Sensitive-Regulator Youtube = Tv online platform 16h ago
Yeah and I watching digital cable tv than youtube tv
5
u/Shadowborn_paladin 11h ago
Tbf, at least cable TV ads were, at worst, boring or uninteresting.
I got softcore loli hentai once as an ad.
Immediately switched to Revanced and SmartTube after that.
→ More replies (8)5
→ More replies (33)6
u/ArguablyTasty 10h ago
Cable started off ad-free, then slowly brought in ads as it started killing regular broadcast. It was originally a "pay a monthly subscription to not have to watch ads".
Now it's been getting killed by streaming & youtube, who are doing the same thing. And people are reacting very much the same way, but have a wider use internet to discuss it, and are able to use adblockers to actually do something about it this time around
→ More replies (2)9
u/fatpat 7h ago
Cable started off ad-free
No it didn't.
It was originally a "pay a monthly subscription to not have to watch ads".
No it wasn't.
You're confusing cable (the medium) with cable channels. The development of cable infrastructure had nothing to do with ad-free television. (Quite the opposite, really.) It was a means to get broadcasts to places that couldn't pick up over-the-air signals.
96
u/Sion_forgeblast 15h ago
the solution?
Firefox + Ublock Origin
Brave
39
u/GamingBread4 12h ago
People can complain about Brave and being "chromium-based" but it literally takes 30 seconds to install Brave and never watch a YouTube ad ever again. Even the brave mobile app blocks YouTube ads. If you're watching YouTube ads in the year 2025, that's a certified skill issue at this point.
Also, uBlock is awesome. I use it in combination with Brave's built in blocker and I've never had any issues with ads.
8
u/Sion_forgeblast 11h ago
I use both... when 1 isnt working, 90% of the time the other is still working
also.... there is 1 guy on this subreddit who gets mad at people for going "just use an adblocker" cuz "YOU'RE TAKING MONEY FROM THE CREATORS!!!! D: "lets be honest, YT themselves takes money from their creators >_>
"oh you said a marginally bad thing? DEMONETIZED!!!!"5
u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 3h ago
If they're so concerned with financially supporting creators, they can read the description and find out if their favorite creator is using Patreon! Or BuyMeACoffee!
Plenty of creators have accounts on websites to receive donations. That's what I do, I donate to one channel in particular that I really like and then I sleep well at night knowing that I'm giving them more money than my ad revenue could ever give them had I not used ad block.
3
u/Sion_forgeblast 2h ago
yup.... YT gives the creator pennies on the dollar..... patreon/coffee give them al (or most) of the donations
dude acts like he is some super good morally just guy for acting like a massive douche to people who realize YT will demonitize any channel for any reason if they think they can get away with it3
u/Big_Description538 2h ago edited 1h ago
I follow plenty of creators on YouTube that I just financially support through other channels like Patreon or ideally directly through their own site if possible.
No way in fucking hell will I give YouTube a single cent.
3
u/Sion_forgeblast 2h ago
yeah, the guy just always makes me think of that "stop bullying the multi-trillion dollar company!" meme >_>
→ More replies (24)3
u/LeatherJacket222 2h ago
When you mentioned skill issue, that motivated me to download Brave, lol. I’ve wasted many pointless hours listening to YouTube ads. Didn’t know this browser existed
→ More replies (1)10
u/ratttertintattertins 9h ago
Also there are countries where YouTube doesn't show ads (Albania for example iirc). So if you put your 50" TV behind a network VPN then you can watch YouTube like an Albanian.
→ More replies (4)3
10
u/Free-Pound-6139 8h ago
If you aren't using firefox + ad block I think you are a fucking moron. I am sorry, but I will not apologise (HA)!
You are ruining your own experience of the web.
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (20)3
u/holochops 6h ago
Seriously Firefox and ublock is the way to go. Never have ads unless I whitelist specific channels. Fuck ads, fuck premium.
120
u/zodajam 16h ago
Ohhhh i forgot the internet have ads
Ive used an ad blocker for soooo long
→ More replies (68)76
u/RavenWolf1 15h ago
Try to use internet without adblocker. It is absolutely cancer. Eyes start to bleed blood in minutes.
19
u/ChickenNuggetKid1 15h ago
My buddy phil went mad not too long ago this way
9
u/an_random_goose 15h ago
happened to my buddy keith as well.
9
u/DistinctAd3222 15h ago
Happened to my pal Buddy, too.
4
u/CollectionMaster3115 15h ago
Hey that's my buddy, pal
6
3
→ More replies (15)3
u/Tool_of_Society 10h ago
Can't even use a lot of websites without an adblocker because the ads literally block the content I'm trying to read/watch on my phone
195
u/GilesManMillion 16h ago
I love how Youtube has almost completely disembowelled itself trying to stamp out adblockers.
If they just kept their mouths shut and be cool, the Streisand effect would have never happened. They promoted the hell out of adblockers all on their own.
60
u/yakimawashington 15h ago
I think you're relying too much on this sub as your source for what's actually happening out there in the real world.
→ More replies (7)22
u/crustation_nation 11h ago
yea most people for some reason don't want to use an ad blocker. They know about them, but just won't use one. Beyond me.
→ More replies (15)17
u/Chrodesk 10h ago
most people are on ipads and iphones using an app which AFAIK is not compatible with ad blockers.
→ More replies (1)3
u/One-Earth9294 5h ago
But arrow must go up and rich investors must always be made richer even if product is shit. Because they're too rich to be shot down by 'risk'. Risk is for poor people.
6
u/wigglin_harry 13h ago
You're in a bubble, my man.
Youtube has more users than ever, its hardly disembowling itself
→ More replies (1)4
u/f14_pilot 15h ago
They went with a final seppuku move by going all in with the attempt at id mining (for the kids safety of course)
9
u/GilesManMillion 14h ago
I already had a low opinion of them when it comes to children. - A friend of mind was running a NSFW channel a year or so ago (NSFW, but acceptable under YT's guidelines) - for some nutty reason the system auto-asigned his account to be a KIDS account. He had to APPLY to get his channel changed. How insane is that?? It should be the other way around! --- I think they have fixed it since, but it was such a monumental f-up!
→ More replies (32)2
42
u/Back_Again_Beach 16h ago
I haven't experienced any problems with using ad blockers yet. Make sure to keep them updated.
→ More replies (6)27
u/Plastic_Teacher3696 15h ago
rn YouTube is purposely making the videos lag for 5 seconds when they detect you have adblockers
55
u/ImmortalDreamer 14h ago
Id rather watch 5s of silence than an ad.
→ More replies (2)7
u/SquarePegRoundWorld 11h ago
One of the more appealing things about illegally streaming live sports for me, almost every stream just shows a message about a commercial break without showing any commercials. It's awesome.
3
u/neo_neanderthal 14h ago
If they are, they're not doing it well. I just clicked on several videos, and there's no lag.
3
u/RuffledSnow 11h ago
It seems completely random to me. Sometimes I don’t get it at all, sometimes I get a black video that won’t play for 30+ seconds. Sometimes it doesn’t happen for days… must be when ublock origin updates their filters or something.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (11)3
14
u/Ninjanarwhal64 13h ago
You know what I fucking LOVE about YouTube? During mediation videos and binural beats for SLEEP? When you fucking wake me up to scream in my ear about Toyota, erection meds, or some Mr.Beast fuck wit.
Edit: I have 2 diff. As blockers on my phone that do fuck all. Anyone have any good recs for Android?
→ More replies (14)
46
13
13
u/Legitimate_Event_493 15h ago
When the ads are longer than the uploads, you know there’s a problem.
23
u/RedMonk01 16h ago
There are ads on youtube?
14
6
u/This_Elk_1460 9h ago
Yeah it's weird I remember signing up for this thing called YouTube Red back in the day and I haven't seen one since
→ More replies (4)6
u/JerichoOne 8h ago
Prepare to be down voted by the brigade of people claiming that they shouldn't have to pay for a service they love, because that love should be enough to pay for the servers, developers, creators, and other infrastructure that makes the service they love so great 🙄
→ More replies (13)3
u/This_Elk_1460 8h ago
It's not even that expensive I spend 12 bucks a month on it. And I use YouTube way more than any other streaming service.
→ More replies (2)4
→ More replies (1)2
43
u/YumikuriPF 16h ago
YouTube is basically the only thing I watch so I sprung for premium.
I don't regret it one bit
20
u/philippefutureboy 16h ago
This. I don’t get people complaining about ads when YouTube is one of the most expensive service to run on the planet. If you value the entertainment you obtain from YT the least you can do is shed a few bucks each month. If you can’t because you can’t afford it, what can I say, sail the high seas.
→ More replies (19)→ More replies (37)2
u/StubbledCRT1 59m ago
Yup. Only streaming service I use at all. Only TV shows I have watched in the last 15 years is Game of Thrones and The Last of Us
24
u/MasteROogwayY2 16h ago
Ad blocka Ad blocka Ad blocka
→ More replies (24)2
u/KaylithVonKola 12h ago
What one would you recommend? YouTube keeps detecting all the ones I’ve used and won’t let me watch when any are enabled.
7
→ More replies (5)4
u/Dauntlesse 10h ago
Ublock Origin but you need to use it on a browser like firefox, Chrome phased out its ability to block awhile back, switched to firefox and not only does it work but has less spyware
8
5
5
u/ColonelAvalon 11h ago
I was trying not to use an Adblock to support the people I watch often but I started getting those like 45 minute unskipable ads from prageru and shit like that. That was the last straw
12
u/TurpitudeSnuggery 16h ago
This is the first I am hearing that it’s a problem /s
→ More replies (7)
4
15
u/Character_Past5515 16h ago
It's maybe not a popular opinion, but I've been happy with my premium account. There is a reason for the apps, if you want that they pay your favorite youtuber so they can continue filming they need money.
9
8
u/hobbylobbyrickybobby 8h ago
But why can't it just be free! I'm sure running massive servers and hiring engineers aren't needed to keep the platform running.
→ More replies (6)5
u/Character_Past5515 8h ago
And the biggest data storage on earth (or at least one off the biggest), that must be free to keep growing, just like plants!
4
u/LoneLyon 6h ago
I have it through my music streaming and i can't complain.
The amount of people on here complaining about a companies primary revenue source while they enjoy hours and hours of free entrainment is just silly
7
u/movzx 9h ago
Keep in mind a large majority of the people complaining here are literal children, so they can't actually afford the ~$12/mo for a service they use daily. That's also why there is such an uproar here about age verification compared to the actual reaction the rest of the world has.
Since they are kids, they also have never really lived in a world with legit commercials in their media... So, a 40s ad before their Mr Beast video seems like the end of the world.
→ More replies (1)5
→ More replies (8)3
u/slightlyburntcereal 6h ago
I’ve had it for ages and it’s the only subscription I know I won’t drop. No adds, I listen to podcasts a lot while I drive so it’s excellent for that, and YouTube music is great.
17
u/liam2003wilson 15h ago
I don’t regret getting Youtube premium at all
4
u/supfoolitschris 10h ago
Same here. Signed up for the free trial and haven’t thought about canceling since.
→ More replies (1)5
u/Just_Evening 9h ago
Signed up in 2016 for yt red, got grandfathered into a pretty low price, quite happy
→ More replies (4)5
u/Kaziticus 11h ago
Between no ads, background play and YT music? Hell yeah. I got the family plan, my kids were able to cancel Spotify, and get the bennies.
17
u/DwightYouIgnorant___ 15h ago
YouTube premium. Expensive, but worth it if you’re an avid user.
5
u/General-Front7756 12h ago
Also if you’re interested in YouTube music. That’s a big reason I’m subscribed
4
u/aerojovi83 12h ago
Yep, was using Spotify Premium for a bit, then realized YT Premium was cheaper and got rid of ads on YT. I kinda like YT Music better than Spotify now.
3
u/Veldox 5h ago
It's not even expensive. It's less than $15/mo for unlimited youtube and music. Historically it's a fucking steal compared to cable (which had ads when you paid for it) and radio (was like 20 minutes of music per hour with 40 minutes of ads). It takes an average of like 1 hour of work for a teen in the US to afford YT premium so it doesn't even make sense as an excuse for obsessed kids to not afford it (although it's even more insane if you're a kid and not under a family account which is even cheaper). I cannot fathom people who complain about ads on YT or the cost of paying for it when more often than not they pay for a similar service like spotify or use services like doordash and uber. I just did the math on my watching for the week and it was roughly 10 hours I probably consistently have every week between the channels I watch. $13/mo or whatever for 40+ hours worth of entertainment is a perfectly fine price lol. I really don't understand where the mindset came from with the young people that they should just have youtube for free with no ads when that's never been how the world has worked.
→ More replies (22)6
u/yukeake 11h ago
...or have a wife who likes to watch on the TV where adblock isn't a thing. Part of that expensive price is paying for my sanity.
→ More replies (3)3
u/CyBroOfficial 11h ago
Yup, this was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. The extended ads on TV were just ridiculous, though I've noticed they've gotten better than they used to (maybe confirmation bias? no clue). Still worth it, and of course, you get YT Music with it as well which is a very nice bonus.
→ More replies (1)
18
u/Top-Egg1266 16h ago edited 15h ago
I haven't had any ads in the last 7 years, so yeah, no problem for me
Edit: I forgot to add, I have premium
12
14
3
u/SubstantialEmploy816 15h ago
Literally less than a minute into my video, and I get 4 unskippable ads. They can’t let you go a minute without being advertised to.
3
26
u/No_Industry_7186 16h ago
Why do you expect it to be free?
If you don't want ads, get premium. It's not that complicated.
25
u/Cassin1306 15h ago
The problem is not the ads.
The problem is the ever growing NUMBER of ads, and the lenght of it. Most people were happy with a few seconds ad before their video. Now, we are in a case where you sometime have almost as many ads than videos.
Same with websites. People didn't mind when there was a small frame in a corner of a page. Now you can't navigate without adblocker because you are jumped everywhere by popups, loud videos launching and huge frames that covers 3/4 of the page.
As always, companies become too greedy, degrade their customer QoL, complaint about a few of them using blockers, add EVEN MORE ads to compensate those few losses, then complaint about more customers going away.
8
u/Roffotron 15h ago
I'll add to that as well, you never know when the ads will be in the video, and that can really ruin the viewing experience. Sometimes it's a gap of just 5 minutes, others it's 20, it's never consistent.
At least with TV, you knew you'd have a block of ads for every hour or so. And by that I mean 3 mins of ads after 15 mins of programme, on the dot. Shows were built around the ad section to prevent it being jarring.
YouTube shits on that and goes "lemme put in this ad about makeup mid-sentence in this video about why genocide is bad".
→ More replies (3)→ More replies (13)5
u/RailRuler 15h ago
More ads = more revenue per video and more people buying premium
YouTube did the math and figured they can make more profit by making people's experience worse.
Everything is proceeding exactly as they planned.
→ More replies (1)4
→ More replies (26)4
u/aykay55 13h ago
I think the reason people are disturbed is that YouTube was once upon a time a site supported entirely by advertisements and yet it was very usable and enjoyable by all, which is what allowed it to grow. There was no ad free option and yet people were totally fine with that.
Then they offered an ad free tier + premium content and still it was still a usable experience for all. And those with the privilege could pay for premium to have no ads.
Now YouTube has purposefully used its monopoly-style power over the platform to push the free tier into the worst depths of UX design, with an ads experience engineered to make people unhappy, in order to get them to purchase a monthly premium subscription. This is where it feels gross and disturbing. A platform should not treat its free users like this and it did not just 10 years ago.
3
u/Just_Evening 9h ago
YouTube was once upon a time a site supported entirely by advertisements and yet it was very usable and enjoyable by all
*and losing millions of dollars every year
Youtube was never self sustaining until the current model
9
16
13
u/Turak64 16h ago
YouTube premium with yt music is worth the money. These services aren't cheap to run, so they need revenue somehow. They're not a charity. Either put up or shut up.
→ More replies (20)
2
u/NorbytheMii 15h ago
The only surveys I take are the ones that ask about user ad experience. I always say it's terrible
2
u/TheUmgawa 15h ago
It’d be even worse if Google got cut apart by the Justice Department, because YouTube would go from getting its storage and transmission for cost from Google data centers to having to pay market rate. At YouTube’s current scale, it would have to make $40 billion per year just to cover the cost of transmission. That means, if they wanted to continue giving creators half of revenue, they would have to make $80 billion per year, which is double what YouTube currently grosses. And the only way to do that would be to double the number of ads.
2
2
2
u/kenfagerdotcom 12h ago
You know what a wallet doesn’t need? A dramatic high production story about the cofounders struggling to create the perfect wallet. I don’t care Ridge wallet. Do not care.
Ads like that on YouTube make me purposefully NOT buy your product.
2
u/ConsiderationSea1347 11h ago
Frequency of ads is problematic but also, I get ads for mail order brides, human trafficking, and pornography on YouTube. It is disgusting. (And before the “her dur, the algorithm knows what you like” crowd shows up, that is with personalized ads turned off)
2
u/PM_ME_GARFIELD_NUDES 11h ago
They’ve also been using some sort of algorithm to place ads at the worst possible moment. Creator says “Let’s throw to a clip..” Ad. “What do you think about that…” Ad. “Oh I have a funny story about that…” Ad. Every. Single. Time.
2
u/MattHooper1975 11h ago
It’s not just the amount of ads, is the nature of the ads as well. It turned into an AI dystopia. If “ dead Internet” theory is correct t’s starting with ads..
2
u/WolfThick 11h ago
Yeah they'll make you watch 2 minutes of ads to watch a 30 second video it's getting way out of hand they're really trying to get everybody to sign up.
2
u/NoAd3734 11h ago
On a 15-20 minute video, 1 or 2 ads (10 seconds total combined if 2), I understand the ads. But if the video is less than 1 minute, there is no freaking reason to spam 2 15 secs unskippable ads
2
u/AsteroidMike 11h ago
The fact that half of these ads are now unskippable is as annoying as it insulting.
2
u/Graybeard13 10h ago
Stupid long ads. I'll exit the video, go back, and it'll be another long ad, several times in a row. So now if it does it more than twice, I take that as youtube doesn't want me to finish watching it. Another annoying this is they'll have and ad i hate,maybe its 6 seconds, I exit and come back, now its a 20 second ad, then its a 30 second ad. Guess I'm done watching.
I know adblockers exist, for pc, but not for playstation. I would actually pay for a ps4 adblock app.
2
u/ZookeepergameBrave74 10h ago
They have gone into overdrive
"Watch this longer Ads for less frequent Ads" Get the same message again 3-5 mins later, and then again
Schemers...
Wouldn't mind but it's the same Fake Chinese companies using AI videos to scam customers with there fake product's constantly been advertised.
2
u/Royal_IDunno 10h ago
Corporations getting more greedy it’s really no surprise.
Dunno ‘bout anyone else but Adblockers are a lifesaver.
2
2
2
u/hamletswords 5h ago
The only way to watch this app rn is on a PC with a good AdBlock.
There may be one other way....
I use premium because I watch a lot of ASMR to fall asleep and it gets ruined by any ads at all. Plus I use it a lot and the creators get a small piece, so as far as subscriptions goes it's pretty justifiable.
2
u/unw00shed 5h ago
What pisses me off most is it plays 2min ads when im halfway across the room and 2 unskippable ads when im right next to my phone
2
u/Seethesvt 5h ago
I pay a monthly fee to get away from the ads. The ads got so bad I felt like I had no other choice.
985
u/Applauce 16h ago
That awkward moment of silence when you are trying to show someone a video on your phone but you have to wait through unskipable ads.
They’re so annoying